Episode #3 - February 2021

No Diagnostic Required

In this month's round-up we cover the latest C++ committee plenary session, what's been approved to go into the C++23 standard, other proposals being worked on, news about Concepts and Modules, Clang Power Tools, Postfix completions in CLion and the C & C++ browser Search Extension

Links from this episode:

• C++ Annotated - February - If you prefer the same material in blog form
• C++ Developer Ecosystem 2021 Survey - Contribute your insights about C++ community
• Herb Sutter's Winter 2021 trip report - Including the February plenary session
• P1102 - Down with ()! - Making `()` optional, even for mutable lambdas
• P2093R4 - Formatted output - Integration with iostreams
• P2216R3 - std::format improvements - Compile time format string checks
• P1947 - C++ – an Invisible Foundation of Everything - Bjarne's summary of the principles of and ideals of C++
• More concepts library - intended to help categorize the STL containers and write some generic code that works with a selected category
• build2 with C++20 modules support. - Also includes some useful examples of modules in use
• Clang Power Tools - Format editor - Including the Style Detector
• Clang Power Tools - now 100% free for everyone - including commercial users
• Postfix completion for C and C++ in JetBrains tools - An alternative to UFCS?
• C/C++ search extension - Browser extension (except for Safari) to directly search cppreference
• When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? - from Arthur O'Dwyer's blog